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Only for about 60 days without a license. Unless you obtained a free license key before the discontinuation, you can't use it beyond the 60-day trial period. Your best bet would be to get the Vmug Advantage Membership if you want to learn esxi and more legally. There are "other" ways, but...

Oh what the heck... In for two. Not sure what I'm going to do to them yet. I was planning on using them as metadata vdevs.

Try using the h264ify plugin and see if it helps with 4k YT videos. It forces YT to use h264 instead of VP9 The issue is that the onboard video decoder can't do VP9 hardware decoding. Blueray and h264 4k content seems to be fine.

Shows up as 69.29 with 23% discount coupon for me.

So far, all is good here. I bought two of them, using one as a PfSense firewall and the other as a 1080p media box.

I was bored a few nights back. So, I thought of adding the 4 of the carriers I own in series using some M.2 to U.2 adapters and see if it would work on the only M.2 interface on a z170 board. This is the result of such madness: What a surprise! Not only did this abomination work, but it also...

AHH Poop... I missed it

Let us know how it goes. For a moment I thought there was a typo where it said Topyou instead of To you lol

At 6.40 for 4 or more. I think it's still a pretty good deal.

Dang that was fast. For a moment I thought my offer wouldn't go through. The STH Effect continues strong!

I am glad to share. My only regret is not buying two more while I had the chance. There were plenty sitting on eBay for a while, and now they're all gone. Edit: And miraculously, just like that, the two more I needed popped up, LOL! Snagged them.

Did a few updates to the post. I was running into some strange issues with the benchmark numbers where they were inconsistent and out of line with what I was expecting. Turns out that sometimes, one or more of the threads during the tests would run on the CPU that did not have a direct...

I'll post some pictures tomorrow morning. I didn't see any bank of capacitors like I usually do on other drives. I was able to sorta hot swap them by accident lol. Had to do a hardware rescan. But I'll also get a screenshot of hwinfo to check out the topology.

Just did some power measurements. It uses about 7-8 watts alone at the wall. I'm going to try to build the user tools to see if I can get some temperature information. But it does get a bit hot to the touch. Not just a bit hot, but after an extended benchmarking session with 4 Optane drives, it...

I bought two Viking U20040 U.2 to 4X M.2 carriers, and I just wanted to add some notes for those considering getting these since I couldn't find much information about them online. Top and bottom M.2 slots with loaded inland 2280 1TB drives. Notice on the top left shot it has one capacitor...

I was afraid this would happen, so I've been deploying TrueNAS Scale to new small business customers as an option were HA isn't that important. I've been playing around with a Proxmox standalone host for a while and really liked it. I'll be trying it out as a cluster soon. But I also want to...

And now officially marked as EOGA. Sad, as this is was how I got started on VMware. I sure hope they don't go for VMUG next.

I don't really have much problem with this. In the end, one of us made a big purchased and used them, even if it was for business use. It's when they get resold at a much higher price that irks me. First come first serve I say.

I wonder if it would be possible to have posts that are limited to specific groups until an amount of time has passed. We could for example, post a great deal, have it only visible to those that have been members for a while and then make it public a few days later.

On the other hand, I found this forum and registered thanks to the fact that it was public, and that I could see the conversations here on great deals. There are very informative discussions here related to the great deals posted that if they were to be made private, others wouldn't be able to...